100,000/Hour Professional Stand-in Chapter 63.2: Have You Forgotten How You Treated Me In the Past? (2)

The receptionist retrieved Ji Fanyin’s coat and handed it to her. Ji Fanyin draped her coat around her shoulder before turning around to answer Bai Zhou’s question, “Bai Zhou, you seem to have forgotten how you used to treat me.”

Those words rendered Bai Zhou speechless.

He did look down on Ji Fanyin in the past. He couldn’t stand how she had chosen to give up on herself and simply accepted whatever others doled out to her, especially when Ji Xinxin was there to contrast between the two of them.

Even the notion of offering a helping hand to her irked him. He thought that Ji Fanyin was a gone case; how could one help a person who didn’t even want to help herself?

This was all coming back to bite him now.

But in the depths of his mind, Bai Zhou couldn’t help but think that Ji Fanyin had to take the blame for this too. Things could have ended up differently if only she had awoken and changed earlier.

“I’ve reminded you more than once, Bai Zhou,” said Ji Fanyin coolly. “In our business transactions, I’m ‘Ji Xinxin’. You’d do well to remind yourself of that, if you’re starting to waver.”

Bai Zhou widened his eyes. He suddenly felt a surge of fluster from having his inner thoughts spoken aloud.

All of the subtle hints Ji Fanyin had dropped to him during her ‘service hours’ strung together to form a revolving lantern in his mind.

He had always been intrigued by how she would occasionally ask him questions like ‘Do you know who I am?’, but it turned out that they were reminders for him to distinguish reality from illusion.

… She has known for a long time that my heart had started to waver.

And she has already rejected me right from the start.

Blood surged into Bai Zhou’s head, freezing his mind up. He realized that even though he had finally become cognizant of his feelings, it wouldn’t make a difference in their relationship if he couldn’t bring himself to speak them aloud, and Ji Fanyin clearly had no intention of acknowledging them.

Bai Zhou gritted his teeth and asked emphatically, “What should I remind myself of?”

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